INFOS

Monday, October 1st – 5.00 P.M – Wits Theatre – 45 minutes

Taoufiq Izeddiou / Cie Anania / Morocco

Bursts of noise from Maâlem Adil Amini, a Gnawa polyinstrumentist, empty the space and rarefy the air around Taoufiq Izeddiou. Full of fury and impatience, he launches himself headlong into the pit of the night. Fela’s music pulsates, making the wrath of Africa vibrate. In a solo in which anger gives way to tenderness, Taoufiq struggles with an invisible demon or grapples with another version of himself. In this dance, where trance takes hold, the choreographer sways his hard, stubborn body and turns, turns, until he loses himself and then recovers, swells and lets himself go, screaming, falling. And suddenly gives way to a kind of Madame Zaza in red tights, with a seriously gravelly voice inhabiting the stage without grace, yelling an impressive kind of “protest song” midway between
a spiritual and a threepenny opera. Aaleef is a solo which is as powerful as it is appealing, as explosive as it is corrosive, where amazing artistic intensity is revealed.